• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    21 hours ago

    Ah, the RTFM argument. So you didn’t go to school, did you? You picked up a book and just started educating yourself?

    • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      I did and after entering the field I had chosen after graduation, I quickly left. It wasn’t for me. What paid for school, however, was fixing computers, electronic word processors, and building and selling PC’s. Bought an Apollo system to learn Domain Aegis UNIX on and checked out every book on UNIX I could get my hands on. When Linux arrived, I got in at Linux 0.99pl13. I got a job and paid to continue my education. So yeah. When I started there wasn’t a community of enablers.